To avoid embarrassment it might be useful to read RFK Jr’s book rather than rely on ChatGPT. The quote in question is on page 153: “[RotaTeq] almost certainly kills and injures more children in the United States than the rotavirus disease killed and injured prior to the vaccine’s introduction.” This quote is not in reference to the clinical trials data. It is based on a set of statistics that RFK does not provide a source for and that we concluded, after exhaustive research, that he probably made up. The RotaTeq vaccine showed 90 percent reduction in morbidity in developed countries—where, of course—a reduction in mortality would have been unlikely. In countries like India, in contrast, rotavirus vaccines have saved millions of lives. It takes a special kind of moral idiot to evaluate a public health innovation and forget about the developing world.